The film is dedicated to the legendary Russian photographer Vladimir Bogdanov. He was born in 1937 and at the age of twenty-seven he gained European fame. Today, the eminent photographer has practically retired and spends his days in a remote village. The film is dedicated both to stories about the youth of the hero and his attempts to find an interesting subject for genre photography in the Russian outback.

The Albatross film studio was founded in Paris in 1920 by Russian émigré filmmakers who left Russia after the 1917 revolution. From 1920 to 1929, the Albatros studio and it was Russian filmmakers who managed to make a real revolution in French cinema. The phenomenal success of Albatross films provided a second life for French cinema, allowing it to enter international distribution and compete with Hollywood. At the head of this small studio, born one February evening in 1920 on the Greek ship of the same name "Albatross", were two Russian producers Iosif Ermoliev and Alexander Kamenka.

A young and disillusioned British diplomat abandons his diplomatic career, spends his own money, and risks his very life on a journey of faith and war in Ukraine. A country riven in pieces by indescribable events, sometimes called: an EU inspired and US -organised revolution, a Russian invasion, a civil war, a war of lies and misinformation, a war where thousands of people have died, and which created over a million refugees, and a war at the heart of Christendom which rips the very geopolitical foundations of Europe to shreds. With the Ukrainian people (including soldiers, military priests, peacekeepers, humanitarian aid workers, refugees, church leaders, politicians/ ‘terrorists’, ordinary families and everyday victims of the war) as his guide, his journey takes him from the idyllic Carpathian Mountains, to the golden cupolas in Kiev to the very heart of the hellish War-zone in Donetsk. He embarks on an odyssey from Christmas Eve to the Epiphany, searching for the soul of this troubled nation and for something which might help to bring a lasting end to the bloodshed and prevent a wider military confrontation between Russia and the West. A profound, relevant and spiritual exploration accompanied by beautiful music.

A film about a village with the poetic name Svetlana, which is located two hours from St. Petersburg. It was built by volunteers more than twenty-five years ago for people with disabilities of physical and mental development, doomed to special psycho-neurological boarding schools of a closed type. Many of them, before they got to the village, could not connect even two words, they sat at home, within four walls. Svetlana avoids the words "disabled" or "sick", preferring to call such people "guys". They do not do miraculous healings and special trainings here, the diagnosis is not important here. Here the children simply create the conditions for a normal human life. Healthy and sick communicate on an equal footing, work together, put on performances and run a joint household. Disabled people do not feel sick and flawed. Everyone is equal here. The shooting of the film lasted about 13 years.

Ilya Dolgov is a special camera operator and a biologist. He can speed things up and slow down time. It shoots in all ranges: from infrared to ultraviolet. He will make the small big and the invisible visible. This time you will hear what gophers in the Kalmyk steppe are talking about with the help of ultrasound; learn how the sacred scarab beetle manages to build a perfectly shaped dung ball; you will see how a poisonous tarantula sparkles with its eyes in the night steppe, going hunting. And the eared roundhead, the only agama living on the territory of Russia, will demonstrate in slow motion all the fighting techniques of fantastic dragons.

Samvel and Avo, Erik and Karen live in the land of a century-old conflict, rooted in the rubble of the Russian Empire. In Nagorno-Karabakh, people live, dream and prepare for a tragedy that is always on the horizon. Over 3 years, Alexis Pazoumian films the epilogue of the black garden, a land where war waits for no one.

After the death of his father, Belekmaa settled in his shepherd's camp. She is experiencing the first serious loss in her life and hopes to see her father at least in a dream until the day when, according to Tuvan custom, the spirit of the deceased is fed and spent forever.

In the real world, there are invisible, but obvious boundaries of the location of each person. This is a simple story about a father and son. The voice of two generations, a clash of ambition and experience, a compromise of wisdom and faith. Two people are in the dark of circumstances. And their interlocutor helps to light the torch that illuminates the path. This is not a person, this is an opportunity, a spark of hope, for everyone.

Boris, who lives in the Estonian outback, is a typical Russian-speaking "non-citizen" of the country, the owner of a "gray passport". Such people do not have the right to vote in elections, get a normal job, they are “aliens and strangers”. And 35 years ago, Boris participated in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident, was one of those who saved the planet. There he lost his health, but did not lose faith in life. Now he builds stoves and fireplaces for fellow villagers, plays the guitar in the village jazz circle, heats the stove in the local church and dreams of great love. Why is he, having lived most of his life in a country where his children and grandchildren are alien?

For 50 years, Alexander Popov has been restoring wooden churches in the Russian north. In 1991 he was awarded the State Prize, but did it become easier for him to work after that?

Video sketch about lovers of chanson in the city of Kimry.

12 soldiers who returned from the Russian-Ukrainian war, deprived of limbs, decide how to live on. Remember or forget? Amputation is a multidimensional metaphor of a severed part of the body, the territory of a country, human consciousness. The film features free verse by Igor Pomerantsev and avant-garde music by Alexander Baksha, Gia Kancheli, Zoltan Almasha, Valentin Silvestrov, Anna Arkushina, Sergei Nevsky, Elena Firsova, Alexander Shchetinsky, Alexei Voitenko and other contemporary composers.

On the very first day, Natasha struck me with curiosity and a thirst not to miss anything. She would run up to people in the middle of the street, smile and talk to them. Passers-by looked around as if at a crazy person, and Natasha said, “How will I understand people if I pass by?”

A pilgrimage film dedicated to the history of the Magnitogorsk Drama Theater from the theater barracks and the first city TRAM to the Golden Mask award and the Forbes list. Formation, repression, war, heyday, stagnation, restructuring, closure and revival. Gains and losses, memories and hopes. Unique chronicles, unique interviews.

Stories about people who are in search of themselves, communication with the world, means of self-expression. This is a study of what beats inside all of us, so different. Something trying to wake up.

Part documentary, part mockumentary, the film tells the story of a young artist, her boyfriend, and her parents who don't always understand her. Art is useless and inexplicable. But anyway, does society need an artist?

What is inevitability? To observe with our own eyes a process that we cannot stop. A process that is already running and no one can stop it.

On February 20, 1986, a new generation station, called Mir, was launched into orbit. The launch of Mir was timed to coincide with the XXVII Congress of the CPSU. How the new station was created is told by the participants in this process themselves: designers, astronauts who lived and worked at the station. After the collapse of the USSR, the station was helped to stay in orbit by the joint Mir-Shuttle program with the United States. For the Americans, who realized that they had lost a lot by abandoning the orbital stations, such cooperation was extremely beneficial in terms of obtaining the technologies they lacked. For the Russian cosmonautics, it was just a way to survive. On March 23, 2001, the Mir station was deorbited and sunk in the Pacific Ocean. It was a tragedy for everyone involved in this project. Cosmonauts, scientists, designers candidly talk about how they experienced this moment. Not just the Mir station was flooded, the national space program was also flooded. And only now Russia is starting to create its own space station. The film uses exclusive archives of the creation of the station, life at the station, and experiments carried out at the Mir station.

In the early 2000s, Valentina, a retired resident of the dying Tatar village of Kichuy, lost her mother. For a long time she was looking for a way to accept the loss, she converted to the Christian faith. Having found her own way to return to life, the heroine decided to help the few inhabitants of the village and restore the dilapidated ancient temple. While the villagers do not understand why restore the temple, Valentina and her friends are trying to survive the loss of loved ones and restore the church.

In February 2022, an 82-year-old grandmother is left alone; her children and grandchildren leave their homeland. Their reunification is hindered by closed borders and the grandmother's desire to return to Novosibirsk.